Covid19 Situation in Outaouais
It is difficult to find covid-19 trend data over time at the local level for the Outaouais region. The Quebec government shows summaries but only the last few days of trends for regions. The Quebec Public Health agency (Institut national de santé publique du Québec, INSPQ) shows only cumulative snapshots by region and by Réseaux locaux de services (RLS), though detailed, complete historical data are available from INSPQ with some digging. The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group (CCODWG, opencovid.ca) provides time series data at the provincial and health region levels collected from official sources. However, none of these sources provide trend data below the regional level. The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais provides frequent (sometimes daily) snapshots by RLS and by municipality, but no trends. The present project provides local trend data based on these snapshots, and key regional indicators based on the most complete publicly available data.
Please note the caveats and data limitations at the bottom of this page.
| Indicators | Description |
|---|---|
| Active cases | total number minus numbers of deaths and resolved cases, aggregated at regional or RLS level |
| Average increase per day | average daily increase in cases over last 7 days, calculated from available data |
| Average testing per day | reported average daily number of covid-19 tests performed over last 6-7 days |
| Hospitalizations (non-ICU) | reported active hospitalizations (excluding ICU) for confirmed covid-19 diagnosis |
| Hospitalizations (ICU) | reported active hospitalizations (in ICU) for confirmed covid-19 diagnosis |
| Resolved/recovered cases | reported number of resolved cases at regional level |
| Total cases | reported total number of cases of infections to date, aggregated at regional, RLS or municipal level |
| Total deaths | reported total number of deaths at the regional level |
| Vaccination | Vaccine doses administered in the region (may not be Outaouais residents) |
In the figures of local data, “rugs” indicate dates for which the data are available in the dataset. If the figures do not show the latest data, reload this page in your web browser.
Outaouais region totals
Average increase in cases
Active cases
Cumulative cases
Deaths
Testing
Positive tests
Test positivity
Hospitalizations
Total hospitalizations
Vaccination
opencovid.ca (Outaouais & Ottawa)
Visualizations of key covid-19 statistics for Ottawa, including projections and wastewater surveillance, are available at 613covid.ca.
Average increase
Cumulative cases
Deaths
Average increase & cumulative cases by RLS
Gatineau & Outaouais
Collines
Pontiac
Papineau
Vallée
Cumulative, Gatineau
Cumulative, other
Active cases by RLS
Gatineau & Outaouais
Collines
Pontiac
Papineau
Vallée
Cumulative cases by municipalities
Total & Gatineau
Collines
Papineau
Papineau (<20)
Vallée
Vallée (<20)
Pontiac
Method & caveats
The HTML source for the CISSS Outaouais site is accessed daily, the tables are scraped and processed into a tidy dataset, to produce the local figures on this site. For the regional and RLS levels, various official datasets are downloaded daily from Quebec government and INSPQ sites. Some historical hospitalization data come from the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS). The latest opencovid.ca health region data are included for comparison. The source code for downloading and processing all data, and the resulting datasets, are available in the project GitHub repository. Daily automation is currently done with MacScheduler.
Users of the CISSS Outaouais (local) data need to be aware of the following caveats:
There is no guarantee of data accuracy. I am aggregating what CISSS Outaouais has been reporting over time. While I do try to correct obvious data input error, I have (so far) not implemented an automatic error detection process.
The date and time in the dataset refer to when the CISSS Outaouais page was accessed, not when cases occurred.
The trend data are not complete (i.e daily) for several reasons. First, I started regularly downloading the CISSS Outaouais source in fall 2020, and used the Wayback Machine to get earlier snapshots. Unfortunately, due to a nasty syncing glitch, I lost some HTML source files. (RStudio projects and Dropbox do not play well together; I learnt this the hard way, twice.) Second, the CISSS Outaouais site is not updated every day. Third, running the code from my personal computer means that the automatic download does not happen every day, either because the computer is turned off, or because my software for scheduling scripts has failed a few times. Since the snapshots include cumulative counts, this is not necessarily a problem, but it means that changes in local case counts cannot always be precisely dated.
- At the local level, CISSS Outaouais does not report numbers of less than 6 precisely, likely for good privacy reasons. When “5 or less” are reported, I record this as 5 cases. Users of this dataset must be aware that counts of 5 do not precisely reflect the actual situation at those levels, but refer to 1-5 cases.
Other caveats:
- Expressing vaccination doses as a percentage of the Outaouais population (in 2020) assumes that receivers of the vaccine are Outaouais residents and that they have received one dose only. These strong assumptions may be reasonable early in the vaccination campaign, but less so as time progresses.
Sources of covid-19 data for Outaouais & Quebec
Updates of this page usually occur after 5pm.
Last HTML source download: 2021-04-12 10:46:48
Last opencovid.ca update: 2021-04-11 20:44 EDT
Last data revision: 2021-04-12 10:47:24
Last page update: 2021-04-12 11:00:22
This page is maintained by Timo Thoms. Questions, concerns, and suggestions can be raised through GitHub Discussions.